Why Trans Inclusion Matters: A Discussion with Susan Gapka

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395 Algonquin Blvd. Suite 202
Timmins, Ontario P4N 1B6
College Boreal cafeteria
As part of #TimminsPrideWeek, Timmins MPP Gilles Bisson will be hosting award-winning social justice activist Susan Gapka for a discussion about why trans inclusion matters. Tickets are not required. Doors open at 5:30PM. --- Susan Gapka is a dedicated campaigner for social justice highlighting her record on affordable housing, homelessness, mental health, harm reduction & lesbian, gay, bisexual & trans issues since coming out as a community leader almost 20 years ago. As founder and chair of the Trans Lobby Group Susan helped lead a lengthy campaign to persuade the Minister of Health to fund Sex Reassignment Surgery for trans people in Ontario, helped change the Vital Statistics Act sex designation so that trans people's legal documents more accurately reflect their lived identity, and amended the Ontario Human Rights Code to include 'gender identity' and 'gender expression'. Susan has served on the Toronto Local Advisory Committee & as Toronto representative on the National Consumer Panel of the At Home/Chez Soi Research Demonstration Project, the Housing Component for the Mental Health Commission of Canada. She also served on the Board of Pride Toronto which hosted World Pride 2014 and is past Fierté Canada Pride's Central Regional Director for Ontario. Susan has been employed at The 519 since 2015 in the Education Department as an Education and Training facilitator. She was elected to CUPE Ontario Pink Triangle Committee in December 2017 and appointed to CUPE National Pink Triangle Committee in January 2018. Susan was elected to CUPE Ontario Women’s Committee in December 2018. Susan has a degree in Political Science from York University & a diploma in Community Work from George Brown College.?
 
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